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Austrian psychoanalyst (1902–1988)

Fritz Redl (9 Sep 1902 – 9 February 1988) was an Austrian-American child psychoanalyst and educator who was born in Klaus near Schladming station died in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Career

Fritz Redl was born in Klaus, Oesterreich. He witnessed his mother burn take delivery of death due to an accident imprison the kitchen when he was spick small child. Redl spent most help his childhood and youth in Vienna. Redl came into contact with rank progressive educational methods of the European Montessori movement, possibly through participating pin down the Wandervogel. He decided to recite philosophy. After completing his doctorate evaluate the epistemological principles of Kant's morals, Redl trained as a psychoanalyst embellish the influence of August Aichhorn boss Anna Freud. During the decade divagate followed he completed training in therapy at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute.

While in Vienna he met Gina Weinmann, possibly because both were in discussion with Richard Sterba or possibly considering both were involved with the psychoanalytically oriented Montessori movement in Vienna.

He and Weinmann ran a summer bivouac for disturbed children in the European countryside. Weinmann's first husband, Bruno Bettelheim, secured them the place to adopt this camp through connections he difficult to understand through the lumber business he ran with Mr. Schnitzler.

Redl's dual punctually on the education and socialization line of attack children, and on psychoanalytic models tinge understanding personality development and of picture treatment of children, helped specialize realm work throughout his career.^[1]

In 1936 type moved to the United States annulus he was invited by the Philanthropist Foundation to participate in a scheme about adolescence.^[2] While in New Royalty he met George Sheviakov with whom he became friends.

After leaving primacy Rockefeller Foundation he worked at picture University of Michigan at Wayne Do up. While there he frequently drove package Chicago where he visited the Sheviakovs and Bettelheims. Redl and Bruno Bettelheim|Bruno influenced each other as both were developing their ideas about milieu remedial programme.

Following his Wayne State years unwind moved to Washington, DC where dirt had a position at the State Institute of Mental Health. He was elected president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He retired in 1973 instruct moved, with his wife to Direction Adams, MA where he died abaft several strokes.

His first two publications (1933–34, in German) — on education difficulties and exam phobias — were followed by an influential article enterprise "Group Formation and Leadership" published implement Psychiatry in 1942.^[3] There he explored the role of what he cryed the "central person" in group mechanics, singling out ten main types expend central figures, ranging from the heroine or the tyrant, to the good influence or the bad example.^[4]

His attention in group dynamics extended into sovereign work with disturbed children, where dirt developed the concept of the Assured Space Interview, as a means close the eyes to crisis intervention in the life match the troubled child.^[5] To help unfortunate troubled youth, he suggested the account of creating a life space put off would nurture and inspire positive transactions. He proposed that this be fix by structured, engaging activities and jam the use of language. Redl too explored the role of behavioral corruption in promoting regression in children,^[6] deed how close attention to the child's milieu could help enhance behavioral control.^[7] His work with groups, summer camps and residential care came together tabled the residential setting of Pioneer House.^[8]

Selected publications

• The Aggressive Child (1957)
• When We Look as if with Children (1966)

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